Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f90d994f47dda332…

MALICIOUS

PDF

91.3 KB Created: 2021-06-11 20:24:22 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: eb8795f905e28ff6b887d027ec3f88be SHA-1: 7582e676ce0c391491d524ab0de2dfa40cb377d8 SHA-256: f90d994f47dda3327b47dab60e087981850bbc6f42076c1c9f1f15b5f5ad6fc7
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

This PDF document contains numerous links, many of which point to compromised WordPress sites and disposable hosting, suggesting a link farm designed for SEO manipulation or phishing. The presence of a movie title in the document body and the URL parameters indicates a lure to entice users to click on these links. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware distribution.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9997

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2528dad23a95d95-d2528dad23a95d95-10044376-0
  • PDF link farm points to compromised-WordPress upload storage medium PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM
    PDF contains multiple clickable links, across many distinct hosts, whose targets are random-slug files parked in the upload directories of vulnerable WordPress form plugins (FormCraft, Super Forms). This is the hallmark of the 'free document/template' SEO phishing PDF family, which ranks for search queries and routes users into payload/redirect chains hosted on compromised sites. The PDF itself carries no exploit — the risk is the linked destinations.
  • Small PDF is a non-clustered link farm on disposable hosting medium PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM
    Small PDF contains many clickable external PDF links spread thin across many distinct hosts (no single dominant host), corroborated by a utm_term SEO-redirector link and/or links parked on free/disposable content hosts. This is the 'free document/template' SEO phishing PDF family, which ranks for search queries and routes users into payload/redirect chains, rather than a normal document citation pattern. The PDF itself carries no exploit — the risk is the linked destinations.
  • External URI info PDF_URI
    PDF contains an external URL action
  • Object number defined twice with different bodies info PDF_DUPLICATE_OBJ_BODY_INCREMENTAL
    The same indirect object (N G) is defined more than once with different body bytes. First-wins and last-wins readers will resolve different content, which is a parser-confusion shape used by targeted PDFs. Body-only differences are common in benign incremental updates, so severity is raised only when the duplicate carries active content.
  • Embedded URL info EMBEDDED_URL
    One or more URLs were extracted from the document. The URL itself is not a detection — see the per-URL labels for which channel (macro, JS, link annotation, document body, ...) reached each URL.
    URL https://queure.ru/uplcv?utm_term=watch+the+accidental+prime+minister+full+movie PDF link annotation
    • https://www.grecosalesinternational.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a3899aa9ec7---foxapoziduw.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://edoxmarketing.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9nfcthq8tvqou8dpvk7kji23sr/kavib.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://arerp.kr/data/file/%5C/11789973472.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wccia-vastu.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e44573ce548a690e96d722f7ae0d30b1/6126680499.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--80akij1ajew.xn--p1ai/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a0d3ad2ccff---78501875424.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pericosrentcar.com.mx/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bbc64a7976a---47122792510.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lichnyiybrand.ru/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160909dd87cdb3---suximeduvukufene.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.arphplumbing.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/685qs760tug16lnikinhtc29t9/fatixoxaxili.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://apartmaji-zunicmile.com/uporabnik/file/865593645.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://trainternational.in/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160812a201dc96---rugomabanigop.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://minutesnap.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9163185a044b46608bf2e028e05ec2d3/ribewizipujuduriwulenog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://creativesilhouettes.ca/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607cb702043c2---bejokujijixadavugibug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://holzhaus-suedtirol.it/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608559d4c0932---20221833787.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alignerco.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/6fdbdeb407a16709bd5259308980f169/97248388042.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://garderoba.sk/images/_file/39150028801.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://willtorock.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607b5b88a8c4f---15412835370.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://autoandtruckrepair.net/nbloom/fckuploads/file/49770032355.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.grandeprairie.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a56566d20ad---lexidowokejogofawi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#In PDF document text
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/In PDF document text
    • http://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off000113ca.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x113CA 5468 bytes
SHA-256: 18b6432052666efddc5cde101581f88fc52fb2c922f61f0f2b258f42c72fd562
font_01_sfnt_off00012649.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12649 10860 bytes
SHA-256: 83442f6016ec270d06068b46d6f18e46e58d1f9a579736354274624e39f4bf99
font_02_sfnt_off00014b2d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14B2D 16036 bytes
SHA-256: 149cab45689013e99d1aa520d2e5234663aa5d8577b6aae5e423b5d60aeda4c1